A curated list of tools, platforms, resources, and communities that promote Open Science, emphasizing transparency, reproducibility, collaboration, and open access in research and scientific practices.
- General Resources
- Open Access Platforms
- Open Data Repositories
- Open Source Research Tools
- Reproducibility and Collaboration Tools
- Citizen Science Platforms
- Educational Resources
- Advocacy and Organizations
- Community and Forums
- Contribute
- License
- What is Open Science? - An overview of Open Science principles and practices.
- Open Science Framework (OSF) - A free and open platform to support transparent and reproducible research.
- FOSTER Open Science - A platform providing resources to help researchers embrace Open Science practices.
- arXiv - A preprint repository for physics, mathematics, computer science, and more.
- bioRxiv - A preprint repository for biology.
- PubMed Central - A free digital repository of biomedical and life sciences literature.
- Zenodo - A repository for sharing and preserving research outputs, hosted by CERN.
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - A directory of peer-reviewed, open-access journals.
- Dryad - A repository for data underlying scientific publications.
- Figshare - A platform for storing and sharing research data.
- PANGAEA - A data publisher for Earth and environmental sciences.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) - An open-access platform for biodiversity data.
- OpenNeuro - A data-sharing platform for neuroimaging datasets.
- Jupyter Notebooks - An open-source tool for interactive computational research.
- RStudio - A popular IDE for R, widely used in data science and research.
- GNU Octave - An open-source tool for numerical computations.
- OpenRefine - A tool for cleaning and transforming research data.
- PLOS Computational Biology - A journal promoting open computational biology tools and resources.
- Code Ocean - A platform for sharing and executing research code.
- Protocol.io - A platform for sharing and following research protocols.
- Binder - A tool to make research repositories interactive and reproducible.
- Overleaf - A collaborative tool for writing and publishing scientific papers.
- ResearchGate - A platform for sharing research outputs and collaboration.
- Zooniverse - A platform for crowdsourced scientific research projects.
- Citizen Science Alliance - A network supporting citizen science initiatives.
- iNaturalist - A platform for crowdsourcing biodiversity observations.
- Foldit - A game where players solve puzzles to help scientists study protein folding.
- Planet Hunters - A project for discovering exoplanets through citizen science.
- Open Science MOOC - A course for learning Open Science principles and practices.
- The Turing Way - A handbook for reproducible, ethical, and collaborative data science.
- Data Carpentry - Workshops for teaching data skills to researchers.
- Open Knowledge Foundation - Resources and tools for promoting open knowledge and open science.
- Open Access Button - A tool to find free, open-access versions of research papers.
- SPARC - An organization advocating for open access, data, and education.
- Open Knowledge Foundation - A global network promoting open knowledge and science.
- Creative Commons - Licensing tools for open sharing of research outputs.
- OpenAIRE - An infrastructure supporting open-access policies and practices.
- Force11 - A community advancing scholarly communication through Open Science.
- r/OpenScience - A subreddit for discussing Open Science topics.
- Open Science Framework Community - A platform for connecting researchers who embrace Open Science.
- OpenCon - A community for Open Science advocates.
- SocArXiv - A community for sharing preprints in social science research.
- Slack: Open Science - A Slack community for Open Science enthusiasts.
Contributions are welcome!
